Modernized Data Protection for Virtual Machines ...€¦ · Virtualization market and beyond. 1. VMware. 2. HYPER-V. 3. CITRIX. Owns the world's most-used cloud vendor software (Amazon,

Simplified Data ProtectionStorware provides highly efficient data protection solutions for all businesses.

Modernized Data Protectionfor Virtual Machines, Containers & Cloud.

vProtect – Modernized Data Protection for VM, Containers & Cloud

Who we are?Founders

Jan SobieszczańskiCEO

Paweł MączkaCTO, VP

Marcin KubackiChief Software Architect

https://twitter.com/jan_storwareCEO

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-sobieszczanski-2133a9105/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcin-kubacki-a1739a31/

https://twitter.com/jan_storwareCEO


Our mission & community#backupmonster

Eager toprotect the data


Operating principles

International ChannelProducts distributed in Europe,

North & South America, Gulf Region,

South Africa and Asia for over 70

business partners.



Growing MarketsAddressing the growing segment of

hypervisors (KVM-based, Xen-based, VMware

and MS Hyper-V), containers (Kubernetes,

OpenShift) & cloud (AWS, GCP).



Certified by top vendorsIBM, Red Hat, Nutanix,

Dell EMC, Citrix, Oracle and Veritas use our

solutions to widen their own portfolio.

Storware – Simplified Data Protection

Storware Portfolio

KODO for Cloud is a backup & recovery platform for Office 365 & Box.

FlyCoat console simplifies the management & reporting forIBM Spectrum Protect.

vProtect is an enterprise backup solution for virtualenvironments, containers, applications & cloud.

KODO for Endpoints is an enterprise endpoint data protectionfor Spectrum Protect.


Virtualization market and beyond

1. VMware

2. HYPER-V

3. CITRIXOwns the world's most-used cloud vendor software (Amazon, Softlayer, Rackspace, 1and1, QTS, OVH).

4. RED HATRed Hat is recognized as an industry leader and open source champion. Hailed as the most successful open source company.

5. ORACLE VMChosen for Oracle DB partitioning and optimization of costs.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant


Virtualization market – future considerations

* https://blogs.gartner.com/michael-warrilow/the-future-of-server-virtualization/

x86-based server virtualisation has changed

Adjacent markets now exist across the

App Dev / Infra & Ops divide as well as

across on- and off-prem.

This requires sufficient understanding of

public cloud, hosting, private cloud and

on-prem virtualisation.

https://blogs.gartner.com/michael-warrilow/the-future-of-server-virtualization/


Storware vProtect is …

• Independent data protection solution with no vendor lock-in.

• Delivered with many different backup destination options.

• Saving time thru easy management interface.

• Able to tightly integrate with your existing environment.

• Scalable and ready to grow together with you.

• Affordable product with flexible licensing and no hidden costs.

• virtual machines

• containers

• applications

• cloud

Data protection for:


Storware vProtect ismade to backup & recovery virtual machines, containers & cloudrunning on various platforms and protecting data at wide range of destinations.


Main features

VM-level, Container-level, agentless full and

incremental consistent backup.Independent backup server or proxy for legacy backup systems.

mostly valued by our customers.

Full features list

Snapshot Management/Copy Data Management.

Application backup – generic backup process for any

application, or set of files.

Disaster recovery based on IBM Spectrum Protect, Dell-EMC

Networker & Avamar, Veritas Netbackup, Amazon S3, Google Cloud

Storage, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Swift or any mounted file-system

(especially supporting deduplication).

Open RESTful API and CLI for 3rd party integration.

https://storware.eu/products/vprotect/


High-level architecture


Scalability

• scale-out by adding as

many nodes as you need

• scale-up by assigning more

resources to vProtect

nodes

Multi-node architecture Scale as you grow


Detailed architecture

Designed for modern world

• open RESTful API

• vProtect is ready to be part

of wider automation or

orchestration solutions


How to use vProtect?

• add your backup destinations and hypervisors• auto-index all available virtual environmentssync inventory

• automatic or manual policy assignement• multiple schedules per policyset policy & schedule

• per schedule or on-demand• multiple backup destinationsbackup

• restore to hypervisor or to secondary site• restore individual files share them over iSCSIrestore


Backup strategy 1

Export data over API (XenServer) or SSH (LIBVIRT)

Pros:• Even single node can handle effectively multiple transfers

from multiple hypervisors at the same time.

• Load balancing.

• Citrix XenServer 7.3+ - CBT support for incremental backups.

Cons:• Libvirt QCOW2/LVM based VMs.• Hypervisorr agent for. Hyper-V. requirement

Direct transfer from hypervisors: VMware vSphere Hypervisor, Hyper-V, XenServer, LibVirt based KVM/XEN


Backup strategy 2

Export storage domain/repository = staging space on the node

Pros:• supported since RHV/oVirt 3.5.1 (works with 4.0+), OVM,

and Proxmox 5• can be configured to write directly to the backup destination

(file system)

Cons:• RHV/oVirt requires additional VM cloning• export storage domain management/setup• no disk exclusion (RHV)

export storage domain (RHV/oVirt/OLVM, Oracle VM, Proxmox)


Backup strategy 3

vProtect Node installed as Proxy VMon the cluster (or in particular AWS Region).

VM disk snapshots attached and dumpedvia Proxy VM.

Pros:• no export storage domain requirement• new RHV API (v4) used• no additional cloning required• disk exclusion suport• automatic Hot-Add for VMware If available

Cons:• more complex backup process

RHV/oVirt/OLVM,Nutanix AHV

Clusteror AWS Region

Or VMware (hot-add)

backup destination

vProtect server

VM

VM

VM

vProtect Node VM

mgmt

Disk attachment: Proxy VM running on RHV/oVirt/OLVM,Nutanix, AWS EC2, and VMware (using Hot-Add)


Backup strategy 4

vProtect Node talks with RHV/oVirt manager and requests snapshot export

Pros:• no export storage domain requirement• new API (v4) used• no additional cloning required• disk exclusion support• no proxy VM needed• incremental backup option

Cons:• requires RHV/oVirt/OLVM 4.2• data transfer passing through manager• requires snapshot merge• even more complex backup process

RHV/oVirt/OLVM

backup destination

VM

VM

VM

vProtect Node VM

mgmt

transfer from Hypervisor Manager – e.g. Disk Image Transfer API (RHV/oVirt/OLVM) vProtect

server


Backup strategy 5

vProtect Node talks with hypervisor managerand requests snapshot export

Pros:• no export storage domain requirement• new API (v4) used• no additional cloning required• disk exclusion support• no proxy VM needed• incremental backup option• direct data transfer from hyprevisor

• SSH transfer can be enhanced with netcat

Cons:• requires RHV/oVirt/OLVM 4.2• requires snapshot merge

RHV/oVirt/OLVM

backup destination

VM

VM

VM

vProtect Node VM

mgmt

using Hypervisor Manager’s APIs, but data transfer from hypervisorSSH transfer (RHV/oVirt/OLVM), VMware vCenter (NBD) vProtect

server


Smart management

• multiple hypervisors

• multiple schedules

• multiple backup destinations

• combined protection form VMs

and containers

• snapshots management

• any application backup

One tool for:Single pane of glass

Centralized backup configuration, its logic and execution for all VMs

or apps regardless of thehypervisor or backup provider.

Clean dashboard with mostimportant status indicators.

Daily e-mail reports with backup summary.

Fine-tuning parameters to optimize the backup proces

RTO & RPO.


Use tags & regular expressions to have your VM protected directly from yourvirtualization management console.

Automate policy assignment for VMsTags + Regex to simplify assign to the backup policies


Backup consistency

Base protection• crash-consistent backup

Quiesced snapshot – requires hypervisorspecific tools• for Citrix XenServer• RHV/oVirt – file-system freeze• Nutanix AHV – application-consistent snapshot

Application-consistent backups• pre/post remote command execution

on the VM before and after snapshotis taken


Snapshot management

• Restore state of the VM without the need to restoredata from the backup provider.

• vProtect creates snapshots periodically according to the policy (schedule and retention settings).

• Admin reverts VM using admin console of eachHypervisor platform or vProtect UI.

VMware/Hyper-V/oVirt/RHV/OLVM/Citrix/Nutanix/AWS


Application backup

Use case:• Generic backup using custom scripts provided by administrator.

• Scripts executed on the Node or via SSH on the target machine.

• Target application can be VM, Container or even physical.

• Apps can be anything: databases, custom applications, or just set of files.


Application backup – use cases

Hypervisor metadata protection

with engine-backup.

Databases and other applications runningon VMs:

- native mechanisms to provideconsistent backups

- when crash-consistent snapshotsare not an option

Existing old script-based backups

centralized for scheduling and reporting.


Application backupCommand execution configuration - to be executed by vProtect


Application backupWhat needs to be exported – file(s), directory, output stream


Application backupConfiguration parameters are propagated as variables to Applications

Parameters of a command execution configuration used by multiple applications

Required to be filled later in each application


Recovery plans

• Recovery plan consists of user defined rules.• Each rule consists of

• state – can be active or not• set of VMs (on the same virtualization platform type)• optional schedules for periodic execution• restore settings:

- specific to the platform selected- last successful or last backup (any state, to explicitely fail test if last backup is not there)

Automated recovery of multiple VMs


Recovery plansAutomated recovery of multiple VMs

• on demand - disaster recovery – restore of multiple VMs

• scheduled - periodic test restore

Use cases:


Integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

• agentless protection for VM’s

• vProtect proxy is one node on ISP server - each protected VM is in a separate filespace

• can be installed on a physical box or VM

• all of tasks are managed by vProtect

TSM API


Integration with Dell EMC Data Domain

• Certified Data Domain® DD Boost File System Plug-In (BoostFS).

• DD Boost File System Plug-In (BoostFS) resides on the vProtect, presenting a standard file system mountpoint to the application (NFS Share from DD).

• vProtect writes directly to Data Domain(staging + backup destination).

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-55465

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-55465


Hybrid protection

• Amazon S3

• Azure BLOB Storage

• OpenStack Swift

• Google Cloud Storage

Supported Cloud Providerssecond tier of data can be stored in a cloud object storage


It’s all about simplicity…


It’s all about simplicity…


Ready for integration

• open Rest API

• Command Line Interface

• vProtect can be fully

managed via API or CLI

• vProtect is ready to be part of

a wider automation or

orchestration solutions


Key aspects of a good backup solution to consider?

Flexibility to be modified for specificcustomer’s requirements. / Simple to deploy and use.

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Single platform able to backup multiple virtualization platforms to

multiple backup providers.

Combines several areas in one tool(VMs, container, application protection,

snapshot management).

Native integration with selected enterprise backup vendors (IBM, Dell EMC and Veritas).

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Open (API) to any integrtionwith 3rd party products.04

Consistent licensing per Host or per VM.


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Modernized Data Protection for Virtual Machines ...€¦ · Virtualization market and beyond. 1. VMware. 2. HYPER-V. 3. CITRIX. Owns the world's most-used cloud vendor software (Amazon,